14 November, 2018
Azerbaijan and Georgian theatre leaders signed a memorandum of cooperation.
The Memorandum of Cooperation was signed on 14 November, 2018 between the Union of Theatre Workers and the Creative Union of the Georgian Theatre Society, the Sumgayit State Drama Theatre and the Kutaisi State Professional Drama Theatre.
At a press conference before the signing ceremony, the parties answered questions from media representatives. After the press conference, Azer Pasha Nematov, Chairman of the Union of Theatre Workers , and Georgi Gegechkori, Chairman of the Creative Union of the Georgian Theatre Society, also Mubariz Hamidov, director of Sumgayit State Drama Theatre named after Huseyn Arablinski and Konstantin Abashidze, Artistic Director of Kutaisi Professional Drama Theatre named after Lado Mekhishvili signed Cooperation Memorandum.
The memorandum signed by the Union of Theatre Workers of Azerbaijan and the Creative Union of the Georgian Theatre Society is aimed at developing performing arts, enhancing the theatre’s role in the spiritual needs of people, as well as popularizing performing arts between Azerbaijan and Georgia, preserving national and individual originality, traditions and heritage, developing direct contacts and practical cooperation between the theatre groups of the two countries, the practical realization of their creative potential in the theatre and theatre schools in Azerbaijan and Georgia; protection of social, legal and professional interests of the creative workers of the theatre industry of the two countries. problems reflected.